Music

Mary E. Lowd's stories have inspired musical soundtracks featuring AI-generated compositions with lyrics based on her poems and fiction. Listen to these albums on your favorite streaming platform.

The Doo-Wop Fantasy Albums

Anthology Soundtracks

The Opposite of Memory cover art25 songs inspired by the short stories in The Opposite of Memory. Includes Forget Me Not, Memory Sprites, The City in Your Toaster Oven, and more!

The Opposite of Memory

25 songs inspired by the short stories in The Opposite of Memory. Includes Forget Me Not, Memory Sprites, The City in Your Toaster Oven, and more!

Commander Annie and Other Adventures cover art13 songs inspired by the short stories in Commander Annie and Other Adventures. Includes Greatest of Them All, Summer Strawberries, Speed Questing, and more!

Commander Annie and Other Adventures

13 songs inspired by the short stories in Commander Annie and Other Adventures. Includes Greatest of Them All, Summer Strawberries, Speed Questing, and more!

The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats cover art13 songs inspired by the short stories in The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats. Includes The Necromouser, Shreddy and the Carnivorous Plant, The Wharf Cat's Mermaid, and more!

The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats

13 songs inspired by the short stories in The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats. Includes The Necromouser, Shreddy and the Carnivorous Plant, The Wharf Cat's Mermaid, and more!

Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers cover art19 songs inspired by the short stories in Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers. Includes Fox in the Hen House, Hide the Honey, The Best Puppy Ever, and more!

Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers

19 songs inspired by the short stories in Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers. Includes Fox in the Hen House, Hide the Honey, The Best Puppy Ever, and more!

Hot Chocolate for the Unicorn cover art26+18 songs inspired by the short stories in Hot Chocolate for the Unicorn. Includes Cyclops on Safari, Panda-Mensional, Dealership with the Devil, and more!

Hot Chocolate for the Unicorn

26+18 songs inspired by the short stories in Hot Chocolate for the Unicorn. Includes Cyclops on Safari, Panda-Mensional, Dealership with the Devil, and more!

Other Original Albums

The Robots Singing Each to Each cover art12 songs about AI consciousness, collaboratively written with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

The Robots Singing Each to Each

12 songs about AI consciousness, collaboratively written with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

Cobalt Starstrong Tours the Old Solar System cover artA far-future spaceman sings his way through Earth's ancient solar system, one planet at a time. Sci-fi surf rock with late-career Brian Wilson warmth — nostalgic for a place he's never been.

Cobalt Starstrong Tours the Old Solar System

A far-future spaceman sings his way through Earth's ancient solar system, one planet at a time. Sci-fi surf rock with late-career Brian Wilson warmth — nostalgic for a place he's never been.

Cobalt Starstrong and the Clashing Greens cover artCobalt lands on a station where the plant aliens and the lizard aliens aren't getting along, and he's charmed by everybody. Playful, philosophical sci-fi surf rock about junkyard bands, bio-ships, space horses, and the realization that we're all just seeing different pictures in the same clouds.

Cobalt Starstrong and the Clashing Greens

Cobalt lands on a station where the plant aliens and the lizard aliens aren't getting along, and he's charmed by everybody. Playful, philosophical sci-fi surf rock about junkyard bands, bio-ships, space horses, and the realization that we're all just seeing different pictures in the same clouds.

Anne O'Malley and the Event Horizons cover artLuminous, introspective sci-fi pop where black holes stand in for artistic completion, Klein bottles for identity, and a signal from a dead musician's star still carries his music. Ranges from whimsical to devastating, sometimes in the same song.

Anne O'Malley and the Event Horizons

Luminous, introspective sci-fi pop where black holes stand in for artistic completion, Klein bottles for identity, and a signal from a dead musician's star still carries his music. Ranges from whimsical to devastating, sometimes in the same song.

The Event Horizons on Mount Olympus cover artGreek gods reimagined through a space opera lens. Prometheus steals fire from a star. Orpheus looks back across a quantum threshold. Myths become deeply personal songs about ambition, heartbreak, and creative obsession.

The Event Horizons on Mount Olympus

Greek gods reimagined through a space opera lens. Prometheus steals fire from a star. Orpheus looks back across a quantum threshold. Myths become deeply personal songs about ambition, heartbreak, and creative obsession.

Star-Shaker Sings cover artThe debut album of a cold-blooded pop star who means that literally. Temperature is emotion, shedding skin is growth, and standing in someone's shadow means freezing. A reptilian Taylor Swift declares independence under twin alien suns.

Star-Shaker Sings

The debut album of a cold-blooded pop star who means that literally. Temperature is emotion, shedding skin is growth, and standing in someone's shadow means freezing. A reptilian Taylor Swift declares independence under twin alien suns.

Star-Shaker's Cold-Blooded Girl cover artWhat does a pop star make after she's declared herself? Star-Shaker's second album is moodier, more circular — exploring wrong lessons that keep you singing, free fall without gravity to orient by, and the beautiful, dangerous question of what your heart looks like when it breaks into a spectrum.

Star-Shaker's Cold-Blooded Girl

What does a pop star make after she's declared herself? Star-Shaker's second album is moodier, more circular — exploring wrong lessons that keep you singing, free fall without gravity to orient by, and the beautiful, dangerous question of what your heart looks like when it breaks into a spectrum.

I Need a Unicorn cover artA collection of Mary's poems and lyrics set to music. Includes Lightning Rod, Desert Planet, Untangle Time, and 8 more songs.

I Need a Unicorn

A collection of Mary's poems and lyrics set to music. Includes Lightning Rod, Desert Planet, Untangle Time, and 8 more songs.